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The purpose of this paper is to describe a method developed for estimation of the diameter of circular disks resulting from anti-bacterial cultures, immersed in a bacterial gel, using digital images of the growth recipients (Petri dishes). This methodology uses a chain of several image processing algorithms that are applied to the Petri dishes images until a set of diameter estimates are produced. The experimental protocol is presented and the results are analyzed in terms of the best non-linear filtering method as a function of the diameter error estimate at the output of the system.
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Caeiro, J.J., Ventura, A. (2003). Estimation of Anti-bacterial Culture Activity from Digital Images. In: Perales, F.J., Campilho, A.J.C., de la Blanca, N.P., Sanfeliu, A. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44871-6_41
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